Well, Belize City police did say following the Central American shooting spree
on Central American Boulevard on Monday evening that they knew who fired the
shots and were looking for the two youths. Four days later you are looking at
the face of twenty one year old Philip Wallace, one of the young men who police
say fired the shots that caught seven year old Janay Moguel, her sixty four
year old grandfather Stephen Rhamdas Sr. killed nineteen year old Dorrel Williams
Junior and injured twenty seven year old Robert Howard.
The shootings occurred on Central American Boulevard around six thirty on Monday
evening. The reason why we are unable to show you the face or disclose the identity
of the second accused person is because he is a seventeen year old minor. Today
twenty seven year old Philip Wallace and the teenager were arraigned on several
charges when they appeared in number one Magistrate’s Court.
Philip Wallace and the minor have been charged for the murder of Dorrell Williams
Jr. who was shot over the left eye and pronounced clinically dead after being 
rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Two days later Dorrel Williams
Jr. was taken off life support.
The pair were also charged with three counts each for the attempted murders,
three counts each for dangerous harm and three counts each for deadly means
of harm of Janay Moguel, Stephen Rhamdas Sr. and Robert Howard. If Belize City
Police know what triggered the shooting they aren’t talking - but information
to 7News is that just before the shooting started a basketball game was being
played near the corner of Faber’s Road and Central American Boulevard.
A young man was reportedly seen running out of the area firing shots at another
youth. Who reportedly ducked behind a parked vehicle. When the gunfire ceased
the intended target ran unto Central American Boulevard and the ensuing gunfire
hit the four innocent victims. Sixty four year old Stephen Rhamdas and seven
year old Janay Moguel was walking across the boulevard to their home just across
the street. Rhamdas was shot in his right palm and Moguel was shot in her upper
left shoulder damaging her lung and spinal cord.
Court reports are that nineteen year old Dorrel Williams Jr. at the time he 
was fatally wounded was standing in a yard at the corner of Central American
Boulevard and Trinity Streets. Twenty seven year old Robert Howard was shot
in the face as he rode by on a bicycle on Central American Boulevard. Court
reports are that twenty seven year old Phillip Wallace was additionally charged
for the aggravated assault on one Marlon Jones.
And just who is Marlon Jones? Well that remains a mystery but when the charges
went to court today – it was the first time that his name was mentioned.
Following their court appearances the seventeen year old minor who has been
identified to us as only one Underwood was remanded to the Youth Hostel.
Phillip Wallace was also remanded. We met him in 2005 when he was at Youth
for the Future learning how to fix bicycles as part of a job skills training
programme. He told us then that he wanted to say out of the very thing –
police now say he ended up in.
[July 28th 2005]
Phillip Wallace, Charged for Murder
"I choose to be a part of this to keep out of trouble and keep out of crime and thing."
Our records show that Phillip Wallace’s brother Andrew was killed
in 2005.
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